Quotes About Fear

The fear factor is a very powerful weapon. It makes people do what they would not normally do. They would jump out from the 20th floor of a building to face certain death if the building is on fire because of the fear of getting burned alive. Both ways you die. But the fear of dying in a fire is stronger than the fear of dying from the fall. So they jump and die.Is that sensible? There is nothing sensible when it comes to fear. Fear overrides common sense.

And—I don't know—I guess words can't kill you, but I'm afraid that they can. I'm afraid one day someone will say something that destroys me.

Some people confuse the respect that has been earned by fear with the respect earned by love. They are not the same.

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly." (quoted from Write for Your Live by Lawrence Block)

fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both sart out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly.

One of the most fundamental of human fears is that our existence will go unnoticed.

Fear flushes clogged pores of perception.

Tools are totems, an important weapon in the fight against fear.

Authors always feel in danger of being abandoned by loved ones. This is a potent fear. Yet it's as inevitable as writer's cramp when we presume to write words for others to read.

The most understandable trap is to wait for fear to subside before starting one's journey. It doesn't, won't, and shouldn't. Too much good writing comes from writers on the edge. Trying to defeat or portage around normal writing anxieties merely postpones the day when we confront our fears directly and find the courage to write.

He said it would be good for me, as I grew older, to know that a man always made his troubles less by going to meet them instead of waiting for them to catch up with him, or trying to run away from them.

that plane isn't going to make it

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evil they fear.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

We die of words. We are hanged, drawn and quartered by dictionaries. We walk in the vale of shadows. It is an age of hobgoblins.

Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

The moment we fear anything we open the door for the entrance of the actualization of the very thing we fear.